Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by Himself, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts: I am abominating the excellency of Jacob, And his high places I have hated, And I have delivered up the city and its fulness.

There is none like the God of Jeshurun, Riding the heavens in thy help, And in His excellency the skies.

And Israel doth tabernacle [in] confidence alone; The eye of Jacob [is] unto a land of corn and wine; Also His heavens drop down dew.

He doth choose for us our inheritance, The excellency of Jacob that He loves. Selah.

Ascribe ye strength to God, Over Israel [is] His excellency, and His strength in the clouds.

a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.'

and saith, 'Because a hand [is] on the throne of Jah, war [is] to Jehovah with Amalek from generation -- generation.'

'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, I have looked after that which Amalek did to Israel, that which he laid for him in the way in his going up out of Egypt.

Now, go, and thou hast smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it hath, and thou hast no pity on it, and hast put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.'

He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

I -- I [am] He who is blotting out Thy transgressions for Mine own sake, And thy sins I do not remember.

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond, Graven on the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,

And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.

And they do not say to their heart, [That] all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been.

The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They -- [to] Egypt they turn back.

They have gone deep -- have done corruptly, As [in] the days of Gibeah, He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins.